The Remaining Task

(January 8,
1968)

What,
then, remains to be undone, for you to REALIZE Their Presence? Only
this; you have a DIFFERENTIAL view of WHEN attack is justified, and WHEN
you think it is unfair, and NOT to be allowed. When you perceive it AS
unfair, you think that a response of anger now is just. And thus you see
what IS the same as DIFFERENT. Confusion is not limited. If it occurs at
all, it WILL be total. And its presence, in WHATEVER form, will hide
Their Presence. They are known with clarity, or not at all. Confused
perception will block knowledge. It is NOT a question of the SIZE of the
confusion, or HOW MUCH it interferes. Its simple PRESENCE shuts the door
to THEIRS, and keeps Them there unknown.

What
does it MEAN if you perceive attack in certain FORMS to be unfair to
you? It means that there MUST be some forms in which YOU THINK IT FAIR.
For otherwise, how could some be evaluated as UNfair? Some, then, are
GIVEN meaning, and perceived as sensible. And only SOME are seen as
meaningLESS. And this DENIES the fact that ALL are senseless; EQUALLY
without a cause or consequence, and CANNOT have effects of ANY kind.
Their Presence is obscured by ANY veil which stands between Their
shining innocence and your awareness it is your own, and EQUALLY belongs
to every living thing along with you. God limits not. And what is
limited can NOT be Heaven. So it MUST be hell.

Unfairness
and attack are ONE mistake, so firmly joined that where one is
perceived, the other MUST be seen. You CANNOT be unfairly treated. The
belief you ARE is but another form of the idea you are deprived by
someone NOT yourself. PROJECTION of the cause of sacrifice is at the
root of everything perceived to be unfair, and NOT your just desserts.
Yet it is YOU who ask this of yourself, in deep injustice to the Son of
God. You HAVE no enemy except yourself, and you are enemy indeed to him,
because you do not know him AS yourself. What COULD be more unjust than
that he be deprived of what he IS, denied the right to be himself, and
asked to sacrifice his Father's Love and yours, as NOT his due?

Beware
of the temptation to perceive yourself unfairly treated. In this view,
you seek to find an innocence which is NOT Theirs, but yours alone, and
at the cost of someone ELSE'S guilt. Can innocence be purchased by the
giving of YOUR guilt to someone else? And IS this innocence, which your
attack on him attempts to get? Is it not retribution for your own attack
upon the Son of God you seek? Is it not SAFER to believe that you are
innocent of this, and victimized DESPITE your innocence? Whatever way
the game of guilt is played, THERE MUST BE LOSS. Someone must LOSE his
innocence that someone ELSE can take it from him, making it his own.

You
think your brother is unfair to you BECAUSE you think that one must be
unfair to MAKE the other innocent. And in this game do you perceive one
PURPOSE of your whole relationship. And this you seek to ADD unto the
purpose GIVEN it. The Holy Spirit's purpose is to let the Presence of
your holy Guests be known to you. And TO this purpose nothing CAN be
added, for the world is purposeless except for this. To add or take away
from this ONE goal is but to take away ALL purpose from the world and
from yourself. And each unfairness that the world appears to lay upon
you, you have laid on it, by rendering it purposeless, without the
function that the Holy Spirit sees. And simple justice has been thus
denied to every living thing upon the earth.

What
this injustice does to you who judge unfairly, and who see as you have
judged, you cannot calculate. The world grows dim and threatening, and
not a trace of all the happy sparkle that salvation brought can you
perceive, to lighten up your way. And so you see YOURSELF deprived of
light, abandoned to the dark, unfairly left without a purpose in a
futile world. The world is fair BECAUSE the Holy Spirit has brought
injustice to the Light within, and there has ALL unfairness been
resolved, and been REPLACED with justice and with love. If you perceive
injustice anywhere, you need but say, "By this do I DENY the Presence
of the Father and the Son. And I would rather know of Them than see
injustice, which Their Presence shines away."